Literacy

Telling Stories and Literacy: The Things You Don’t Usually Get To See

Photo Credit Jonathan Van Ark I am an unrepentant bibliophile and logophile. I love words and word games and reading. I could spend months sitting by a lake with a stack of books and little else and I would be in Heaven. I can’t imagine a life without books....

Reading Up: A Literary Strategy

My son loved this book when he was three Emergent readers are typically children, but they can also be adults, who are just beginning to learn the forms of grammar and written syntax found in literature. To Read Up in this context means to have someone read something...

What Is The Best Grade To Introduce Storytelling?

Some years ago, after a storytelling set, a curriculum teacher told me she really wanted to start using storytelling in the classroom. She asked me what would be the best grade to implement such a thing. I know I had one of those run over by a train looks on...